EBSTER,
WILLIAM, M. D., of Dayton, Ohio, was born in Butler county, Ohio, on
January 12th, 1827. He is of Welsh descent. His ancestors, some
generations back, on immigrating to America, settled in New Jersey, in
the neighborhood of New York, and subsequently removed into
Pennsylvania. His grandfather moved to Ohio in 1806, -at that time but
thinly populated,- and located in the beautiful valley of the Miami.
Here the subject of this sketch was reared to agricultural occupations.
In his fourteenth year, he entered the Monroe Academy, where he prepared
himself for admission to the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio.
Remaining here two years, he entered the Farmers' College near
Cincinnati, and graduated with honor in 1848.

Inheriting from his
father, who was a physician, a taste for medical studies and pursuits,
he devoted all his leisure moments during his senior year to the
education necessary for attendance upon the Eclectic Medical Institute
in Cincinnati ; he graduated in 1851, and moved to Middletown,
Ohio, as an allopathic physician. The College named had established a
chair of homopathy. In attendance upon the lectures of Professor Rosa,
the distinguished incumbent of that chair, Dr. Webster was so much
impressed with his manly exposition of the system, that he was induced
to make a partial trial of it. At the end of one or two years, he
dropped the practice of the old system, and continued exclusively upon
the new. After nine years' practice in Middletown, he removed, fourteen
years since, to Dayton. He makes a specialty of catarrh in its various
phases, and devotes much attention to female diseases.

Dr. Webster has been
Secretary of the Miami Homopathic Medical Society ever since its
incipiency, twelve years since. He has also been at different periods
Secretary and President of the Ohio State Homopathic Medical Society.
He has been married nearly twenty years. Keeping aloof from political
life (excepting the exercise of his right of suffrage), he has devoted
himself assiduously to the duties of his profession, and has attained an
enviable position.